Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter F

An Australian artist.Kempf has worked with and in a variety of media, styles and methods including p

An Australian artist.Kempf has worked with and in a variety of media, styles and methods including paint, print, etching, lithograph, monotype, screenprint, textile and woodcut.[1]an artist whose work presents both a striking continuity throughout a career which has stretched over half a century, and he is an artist whose work presents evidence for constant rejuvenation and reinvention. As a humanist, the concern for man lies at the centre of his universe and the dilemma of being is the central preoccupation. However, the human presence in Kempf’s art is not something which is treated as unproblematic, something to be recorded and to be described literally. For Kempf to be human is something to be celebrated and the artist adopts an ethical stance in his defence of human dignity.

Was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist painters who were centered

Was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist painters who were centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, attended Girard College, an academy for fatherless boys, attended Boston University, spent summers from 1956-62 painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and died in New York City of a rheumatic heart disease. He was married to Elizabeth Vincent Parsons, a British ballet dancer.

One of the principal painters and printmakers of the German Expressionist movement.

One of the principal painters and printmakers of the German Expressionist movement.

A German music producer and singer-songwriter. He started out as a trained cook before moving into t

A German music producer and singer-songwriter. He started out as a trained cook before moving into the music business.

Was an Austrian commercial artist, illustrator, and painter best known for his controversial "Tales

Was an Austrian commercial artist, illustrator, and painter best known for his controversial "Tales at the Dressing Table" portfolio. Von Bayros belonged to the Decadent movement in art, often relying on erotic themes and phantasmagoric imagery.he passed the entrance exam for the Vienna Academy with Eduard von Engerth. Von Bayros mixed in elegant society and soon belonged to the circle of friends of Johann Strauss II, whose stepdaughter Alice he married in 1896. The next year, von Bayros moved to Munich. In 1904, von Bayros gave his first exhibition in Munich, which was a great success. From 1904 until 1908, von Bayros traveled to Paris and Italy for his studies. Returning to Vienna, he felt himself a stranger. The outbreak of the First World War was yet another setback for von Bayros. The artist died at Vienna, from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Was a composer and conductor of the Romantic period notable for his four dozen operettas.He spent hi

Was a composer and conductor of the Romantic period notable for his four dozen operettas.He spent his childhood in Zadar, where he had his first music lessons and began to compose at an early age. As a teenager in Cremona, Suppé studied flute and harmony. His first extant composition is a Roman Catholic Mass, which premiered at a Franciscan church in Zadar in 1832. He moved to Padua to study law, a field of study not chosen by him, but continued to study music. Suppé was also a singer, making his debut in the role of Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore at the Sopron Theater in 1842.

An Austrian conductor.In 1985, Möst assumed the stage name Welser-Möst on suggestion of his mentor

An Austrian conductor.In 1985, Möst assumed the stage name Welser-Möst on suggestion of his mentor, Baron Andreas von Bennigsen of Liechtenstein, thus paying homage to the city of Wels where he grew up.[2][3] In 1986, he was adopted by von Bennigsen. In 1992, Welser-Möst married von Bennigsen's former wife, Angelika.[4][5][6] His first major debuts were at the Salzburg Festival in 1985, followed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986. Other guest conductor appearances comprised the first five years of his career: his American debut with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1989, performances with the orchestras of Atlanta, Boston, New York, Chicago, plus frequent returns to the London Philharmonic. In 1990, Welser-Möst became principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO).[7] His LPO tenure was controversial, with London critics giving him the nickname "Frankly Worse than Most".[4] He concluded his LPO tenure in 1996.

Is an Austrian artist who currently resides in Vienna. His radical art, which started as a reaction

Is an Austrian artist who currently resides in Vienna. His radical art, which started as a reaction to the Viennese Actionism movement has been exhibited in museums and galleries for more than three decades.[1] He is currently married to the Georgian arti

Was a German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style.He studied from 1910 to 1914 at the Colo

Was a German painter and sculptor in a constructivist style.He studied from 1910 to 1914 at the Cologne School of Arts and Crafts. In 1919 he took part in Dada activities; he was invited to exhibit in the large Dada exhibit in Cologne but withdrew at the last moment. In that same year he met Max Ernst, and also formed the Stupid group which included Heinrich Hoerle and Anton Räderscheidt.His first large solo exhibition was in Cologne at the Kunstverein in 1923, and by the mid-1920s he was a leader of the "Group of Progressive Artists", who sought to reconcile constructivism with realism while expressing radical political views. In 1929 he founded the magazine "a-z", a journal of progressive art.

Was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School. A member of the famous Feuchtmayer

Was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School. A member of the famous Feuchtmayer family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmayer (b. 1667); the nephew of Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718) and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1666–1713); the older brother of Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (1709–1772); the cousin of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (1696–1770); and the father of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (b. 1735).

Was a bass singer and composer of the classical era. He sang the role of Sarastro in the premiere of

Was a bass singer and composer of the classical era. He sang the role of Sarastro in the premiere of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.By 1787 he had joined the theatrical company of Emanuel Schikaneder, for which he sang the demanding role of Osmin in Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio and other roles. In 1789 the troupe settled at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna. Gerl participated in a system of joint composition used by Schikander's troupe, in which Singspiele were produced rapidly by having several composers collaborate.

Was an Austrian primary school teacher and church organist in the village of Arnsdorf. At the same t

Was an Austrian primary school teacher and church organist in the village of Arnsdorf. At the same time he was organist and choirmaster at St. Nicholas Church in the neighboring village of Oberndorf and then in later years moved on to Hallein, Salzburg.Together with Josef Mohr (original German lyrics), a Catholic priest, Gruber composed the Christmas carol Silent Night. On December 24, 1818, Mohr, an assistant pastor at St. Nicholas, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to write a melody and guitar arrangement for the poem. At Christmas Mass, while Mohr played his guitar, the two men sang "Stille Nacht" for the first time. The St. Nicholas choir repeated the last two lines of each verse.

Was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts of faces

Was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.He spent two years in Graz, in the workshop of his other maternal uncle, the sculptor Philipp Jakob Straub. At the

Was an American Academy Award-winning film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and acto

Was an American Academy Award-winning film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.

Was an English music hall artist.Aged ten, after seeing Vesta Tilley, first visiting her sister who

Was an English music hall artist.Aged ten, after seeing Vesta Tilley, first visiting her sister who lived close to the shop, and later playing the lead in Dick Whittington at the Prince of Wales Theatre, that Fred became interested in the stage. His first notable performance was playing the Duke of Solihull in Cinderella at the Alexandra Theatre, in 1906.

Is a production designer, art director, writer, actor, storyboard artist. As a teenager, he was intr

Is a production designer, art director, writer, actor, storyboard artist. As a teenager, he was introduced to film animation by Lee and Mary Blair, retired artist/ animators from his hometown of Santa Cruz, California. Fred graduated from the film school of California Institute of the Arts with a degree in Character Animation.From there he worked on theatrical features at Walt Disney Feature Animation during the revival boom of the studio initiated by the success of The Little Mermaid in 1989. His debut as Art Director was the film, "Rover Dangerfield" produced by Hyperion Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Fred Cline was the Production Designer on Bebe's Kids, a Hyperion/Paramount film which, for the first time in a major studio's theatrical release, featured a majority black character cast. He was the Production Designer on the Paramount/Nickelodeon film, "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius", the first theatrical computer graphics animated feature to use inexpensive, off-the-shelf software (Newtek's "LightWave 3D").

Was an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Beard.Fred Cres

Was an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Beard.Fred Cress was known for sometimes unusually painting with a spray gun. He was born in India and arrived in Australia in 1962. He started his career as an artist doing figurative works, then doing more abstract work in the late 1960s, and coming back to figurative painting after he won the Archibald Prize. He was awarded an Australia Medal in 2003 for services to the Visual Arts.

A Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. Some of his albums have been credited to Fred J. E

A Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. Some of his albums have been credited to Fred J. Eaglesmith.Eaglesmith was one of nine children raised by a farming family in rural Southern Ontario. As a teenager, he hopped a freight train out to Western

A photographer known primarily for his photos of life in Vancouver, Canada. He worked professionally

A photographer known primarily for his photos of life in Vancouver, Canada. He worked professionally as a medical photographer. He was the associate director of the UBC Department of Biomedical Communication, and also taught at Simon Fraser University.He grew up in Stuttgart, but was evacuated from the city during the aerial bombardment of the Second World War. His parents died during the war (of typhoid and cancer), after which he dropped out of school and found work as a seaman on ships. He emigrated to Canada in 1952, living briefly in Toronto and Montreal before moving to Vancouver in 1953. He had taken casual photos since childhood, and began to take it seriously after moving to Canada.

Was an American cartoonist best known for his work on the comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith

Was an American cartoonist best known for his work on the comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.Born in Kennett, Missouri, he got his start as a sports cartoonist for the Tampa Daily Times. While playing golf in the area, "Barney Google" creator Billy DeBeck noticed Lasswell's work and hired the 17-year-old as an assistant. After DeBeck's death of cancer in 1942, Lasswell took over the strip. Originally a sports- and urban-oriented strip, the cartoon introduced Google's hillbilly cousin Snuffy Smith in 1934. Under Lasswell's tenure, Google was gradually phased out and the strip's emphasis shifted to Smith, drawing on his rural upbringing for the stories.

An American artist. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an

An American artist. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin. Tomaselli is represented by the White Cube gallery in the UK and the James Cohan Gallery in USA.Tomaselli grew up in Anaheim in Southern California, where what he has described as “artificial, immersive, theme park reality” was a normal part of everyday life and the idea of a “contaminated” image – one that is Post-modern in its borrowing from both high and low culture – permeates his work. In 1982, he graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a B.A. in Painting and Drawing.

Is a folk singer best known for his UK hit single, "The Oldest Swinger In Town".Wedlocks's albums in

Is a folk singer best known for his UK hit single, "The Oldest Swinger In Town".Wedlocks's albums include The Folker (1971) (notable for the title track parody of "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel), Frolicks (1973), Out of Wedlock (1978), The Oldest Swin

Describes himself as of "African, American Indian, European and Amerindian" descent. [1] In May 2008

Describes himself as of "African, American Indian, European and Amerindian" descent. [1] In May 2008, it was announced Mr. Wilson will become a Whitney Museum trustee replacing Chuck Close.Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2003. Wilson represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo in 1992 and the Venice Biennale in 2003. [2] In 2001, he was the subject of a retrospective, Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000, organized by Maurice Berger for the Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The show traveled to numerous venues, including the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Berkeley Museum of Art, Blaffer Art Gallery (University of Houston), Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY), Addison Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Museum in Harlem.

Is an African-American singer and actress best known for her 1970 hit song, "Band of Gold". At an ea

Is an African-American singer and actress best known for her 1970 hit song, "Band of Gold". At an early age, Freda Payne grew up listening to different jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday As a teenager, she attended the Institute of Musical Arts; she soon began singing radio commercial jingles and took part in (and won many of) local TV and radio talent shows

Was the singer, frontman and comical element in the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers.In the e

Was the singer, frontman and comical element in the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers.In the early years of the band, Garrity's official birthdate was given as 14 November 1940 to make him appear younger and therefore more appealing to the youth mar